Automate application on localized Windows

[Djordhan]

Hi there!

I created a small script that handles an installation but after sending it to customer for testing purpose.. I realized my mistake.

Currently I'm looking at the state of the installer with functions like WinWaitActive and things like that... which requires me to check for the title since I can't (or don't know how) to get the windows handle on a window that only exists after the script is started.

So you imagine that my title: "Software Installation" is something like "Software Instalacion". So I'm screwed and the script just hang.

Is there a way to automate a software no matter what language it is set to ?

Thanks a lot!

JD

[bogQ]

look in help file for

Window Titles and Text (Advanced)

hint:

WinWaitActive("[CLASS:Notepad]", "")

to get win class use Info tool that come with autoit instalation

Edited January 18, 2012 by bogQ

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, Djordhan. It depends on the installation type. Can you tell us what the name of the software is? Also, is it a Setup.exe or an MSI, or some other install method? Maybe post your working script so we can take a look

[Djordhan]

I'll try to fix it using the window class and if I don't succeed I'll keep you posted Thanks!

[Djordhan]

Are you 100% sure that the class name are the same on translated Windows ? Like "MsiDialogCloseClass" won't become something like "MsiDialoguesClososClassum" ?

[bogQ]

if its identical version it shud not geave any problems i hardly think that someone will rename win class for diffrent languages, and i hardly think that someone will rename it on diffrent versions. well at least it never happend to me.

[Djordhan]

I successfully used the classname instead of the title and another problem was that both main window and all its child popups had the same classname so I had to use to retrieve the extended style to control the proper window.

What I needed is to make sure that when a popup is shown, the main window is already closed before proceeding. Previously I used nested If WinExists("title") statements to check if main and popup windows existed simultaneously. Now it does exactly what I need without the dependency on the title.

Looks somewhat like this:

$aWinList = WinList("[CLASS:MsiDialogCloseClass]")
If UBound($aWinList) = 2 Then ;Make sure only one window of that class exists
  $aExStyle = DllCall("user32.dll", "long", "GetWindowLong", "hwnd", $aWinList[1][1], "int", -20)
  If Hex($aExStyle[0]) = 00000100 Then ;Checks if the window is of type "popup"

Edited January 18, 2012 by Djordhan